Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 81
swG cicmncH 48 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF POWER PLANTS, permits the straight descent of the plunger-rods, it can readily^be seen that a successful design could as easily have beenmade by having the cylinders vertical and attached to a … longer beam, leaving space nearer the centre for the attach-ment of the plunger-rods, and one on each side could havebeen used. It is an advantage to give a long stroke to thesteam-cylinder to secure high piston-speed. THE MECHANISM OF ENGINES. 49 Fig. 33 shows a modern type of beam-engine in…
Mechanical engineering · Steam power plants
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